Has Brett Robin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $32,533 in general payments to Brett Robin, MD across 183 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Brett Robin, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Brett Robin, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Brett Robin, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1861649717

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.8%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medacta USA, Inc. at 53.7% of the total.

$32,533in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 183 payments — averaging $177.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medacta USA, Inc.$17K
Arthrex$5K
Pylant Medical$4K
Exactech, Inc.$3K
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$786
Stryker$512
plus $2K from 21 others

$32,442in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $5407.03 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$32K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,00012%
Travel & lodging$16,52051%
Food & beverage$7,93624%
Education$4,07713%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Medacta USA, Inc.	69	$17,456
Arthrex	51	$4,686
Pylant Medical	9	$4,454
Exactech, Inc.	6	$2,595
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.	3	$786
Stryker	10	$512
Core Surgical Group	6	$496
Zimmer Biomet	3	$393
Medtronic	2	$216
Smith+Nephew	2	$170
BREG, Inc	1	$135
Teleflex LLC	1	$105
Abanza Inc.	1	$95
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$68
Biocomposites Inc	2	$55
Vericel Corporation	2	$43
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$41
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	2	$40
Davol Inc.	1	$35
Encore Medical, LP	1	$25
SRS Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$24
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$21
Johnson & Johnson	1	$19
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$18
Abbott	1	$18
Curonix LLC	1	$15
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$14

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

Shoulder System$6,577
PRIMARY SHOULDER$4,000
EQUINOXE$2,580
AMISTEM$1,954
GMK SPHERE$1,937
MOTO UNI$711
MYSPINE$611
ROSA$268
MAKO$170
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$147
MECTA$142
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$136
Breg VPULSE, PlasmaFlow, PolarCareWave$135
ROSA-Knee$125
UroLift$105

How this compares

$32,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$144,089

Medicare patients

244

Services billed

1,199

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	108	$1,030
Celecoxib	35	$1,007
Ondansetron Hcl	64	$522
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	24	$263

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
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Stefan KreuzerHouston$6.2M
Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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